Art Guide Australia Bookstore

Art Guide Australia Bookstore A curated selection of the best Australian art books. By Art Guide Australia.

Proudly working on the lands of the Wurundjeri people, part of the Kulin Nation, we are here to help tell the story of Australian art.

Just arrived 📚Francis CarmodyWise to the Bait, Vol 1.Wise to the Bait, Vol. 1 is a self-published artist book documentin...
12/06/2026

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Francis Carmody
Wise to the Bait, Vol 1.

Wise to the Bait, Vol. 1 is a self-published artist book documenting Francis Carmody’s contribution to Primavera 2025: Young Australian Artists at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia. 
The book extends the exhibition into print through an unbound format that allows the publication to be physically expanded. Installation views, detail images, and text extracts can be spread out and viewed simultaneously, creating a reading experience that mirrors the spatial and relational logic of the exhibition itself.

You can read more about Francis Carmody’s practice in the current Art Guide Australia article The Shape of Things to Come by Oliver Giles. 🔗 to article in bio 📕

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Just arrived 📕Rob McHaffie: Do paintings get jealous of windowsPublished by Buxton Intl. Edited by Luisa Bosci with cont...
05/06/2026

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Rob McHaffie: Do paintings get jealous of windows
Published by Buxton Intl.
Edited by Luisa Bosci with contributions from Charlotte Day, Amelia Wallin and Lisa Radford.

“Rob Mchaffie’s paintings portray how we fashion ourselves, seek inspiration, fall in love, hang out, and negotiate roles in life as artist, friend, partner and parent. They remind us that life is made of many fleeting moments and stages that are so easily forgotten during the business of living itself.” - Charlotte Day.

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Just arrived 📕Lottie Consalvo: We hover above the ground in hope that we might floatPublished by Art Ink A major new mon...
29/05/2026

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Lottie Consalvo: We hover above the ground in hope that we might float
Published by Art Ink

A major new monograph on the work of Lottie Consalvo, bringing together painting, performance and video across 304 pages.

We hover above the ground in hope that we might float offers a richly paced view of Consalvo’s practice through expansive image plates and commissioned texts, tracing a body of work shaped by gesture, atmosphere and emotional depth. With writings by Sarah Mosca, Anne Ryan, Miriam Kelly, Ineke Dane, Gina Mobayed, Anthea Mentzalis, Brooke Babington, Alanna Irwin and Tulleah Pearce. Foreword by Jo Higgins.

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Happy Sunday! It’s the final day of the Melbourne Art Book Fair 📚You can find us between our friends at and here til 5...
17/05/2026

Happy Sunday! It’s the final day of the Melbourne Art Book Fair 📚You can find us between our friends at and here til 5!

New to the Bookstore 📕 Mince Issue OneThe Incubator Issue, Dec 2025. A bound, 96 page publication with works from 50+ ar...
08/05/2026

New to the Bookstore 📕

Mince Issue One

The Incubator Issue, Dec 2025. A bound, 96 page publication with works from 50+ artists and writers across Australia and the US. Designed, printed and self-published in Melbourne (Narrm). Printed on recycled paper. B5 / 176 x 250 mm.

(n.) Ground-up bits, often overlooked, made essential. (v.) To chop, blend, and rework into something greater than its parts. A metaphor for creative process – messy, deliberate, satisfying.

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Next weekend! The Art Guide Bookstore is excited to return to the Melbourne Art Book Fair. We will be presenting a range...
07/05/2026

Next weekend! The Art Guide Bookstore is excited to return to the Melbourne Art Book Fair. We will be presenting a range of small press, artist books, monographs, exhibition catalogues, and more. Come and say 👋 at our stall📚
Visit .melbourne to view the full program.

Melbourne Art Book Fair
Friday 15 May – Sunday 17 May
10am – 5pm

☔️gloomy day in Northcote. We are open for the week! Thurs-Sat 9-5pm. Browse our excellent selection of Australian art b...
07/05/2026

☔️gloomy day in Northcote.

We are open for the week! Thurs-Sat 9-5pm. Browse our excellent selection of Australian art books in store or peruse online 🔗 🆙 🔝 📚

Just arrived 📚Penelope JacksonUnseen: Art and Crime in AustraliaPublished by Monash University Publishing, 2025 The Aust...
01/05/2026

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Penelope Jackson
Unseen: Art and Crime in Australia
Published by Monash University Publishing, 2025

The Australian art world is often host to crime, including theft, fraud and forgeries. Unseen offers a unique insight into art crime in Australia from colonisation to today, focusing on those stories that have often escaped mainstream attention. From the many offences committed against William Dobell’s work (including a painting listed on the FBI’s National Stolen Art File since 1949) to the mysterious re-emergence of Rupert Bunny’s Girl in Sunlight twenty-three years after it disappeared, from fraudulently sold Aboriginal art to climate activists spray-painting a famous Frederick McCubbin, Australian art has been a hotbed of revolt, recrimination and even robbery since European contact.

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The Art Guide Bookstore is open for the week!Thurs-Sat 9-5pm. Online shop open always 📙
29/04/2026

The Art Guide Bookstore is open for the week!
Thurs-Sat 9-5pm. Online shop open always 📙

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